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U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack (www.nbcnews.com)
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[โ€“] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm just saying that, unless you built the device you're using, and you know what every component does, and you know what it's doing when, and you know it wasn't manufactured by a foreign state-owned manufacturer with a penchant for putting spy chips in their devices, then you can't truly trust anything you do on it, encrypted or not. It doesn't really matter, if the software is being encrypted by backdoored hardware.